Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Election Systems & Software LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific examination path for the company's current filings. Practitioners should note that having only 1 distinct art unit involved simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio's active matters and ensures that all current prosecution is subject to the same technical oversight.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions for the entire entity, the company's current interactions with the office are limited to a single individual. This centralized prosecution structure allows for a very focused engagement with the examiner, as there are no other pending matters to coordinate across different personnel or technical groups. The singular focus on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a clear and direct path for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 1 | 68.8% | +22.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737672 | PORTABLE UPDATE HUB | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737672 | PORTABLE UPDATE HUB | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 3699 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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